Hubert Frederick Fisher was
an American
politician
and a member of the United States House of
Representatives for the 10th congressional
district of Tennessee
.
Biography
He was
born on October 6, 1877 in Milton, Florida
in Santa Rosa County
. He attended the common schools and graduated
from the University of Mississippi
at Oxford
in 1898. He studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1904, and commenced practice in
Memphis,
Tennessee
.
He was a delegate to the
Democratic National
Convention in 1912. He was a member of the
Tennessee Senate in 1913 and 1914. From
1914 to 1917, he was the
United States district
attorney for the
western district of Tennessee. He was elected as a
Democrat to the
Sixty-fifth and to the
six succeeding Congresses. He served from
March
4,
1917 to
March 3,
1931, but he was not a candidate for
renomination in 1930.
Due to deafness, he retired from legal and
political activities and moved to Germantown, Tennessee
, where he engaged in nursery pursuits.
He died on
June 16, 1941 while on a
visit to New York
City
. He was interred in Old
Gray Cemetery in Knoxville, Tennessee
.
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